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‘Allen suggests that the beginning of notebook culture really lies in 14th-Century Florence. It was here that merchants started using small, portable ledgers to record trades and calculate profits… they split out into every other sphere of Florentine life.
Oct 26, 2013 · As loose leaf paper and eventually notebooks came into use, thoughts shifted from being oral and recall based to a more text-based culture. We were now able to keep information outside the mind and access it for later reference at any point in time.
Oct 4, 2024 · Allen begins “The Notebook” with a brief account of antiquity’s use of clay tablets and papyrus scrolls, pausing briefly to discuss that eerily modern fresco from Pompeii — long thought to ...
The first history of the notebook, a simple invention that changed the way the world thinks. We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did these indispensable implements come from? How did they revolutionize our lives? And how can using a notebook help change the way you think?
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Nov 11, 2023 · How the notebook changed the world. We speak with Roland Allen, author of ‘The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper’. Plus: ‘Pier Journal’, an independent community journal celebrating the creative culture of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.
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Oct 26, 2023 · As he says those words, he takes out a notebook and writes in it, giving us a vision to rival man-with-skull: man-with-notebook. Allen’s history is itself a commonplace book of sorts.
